Tools to Amplify Instruction!
Collaboration, creation, and assessment with technology!
Padlet! Easy and Collaborative
Recommend a Book, Do a Book Talk!
Compare Data!
Kindergarten Friends Draw a Response!
AnswerGarden, Another Collaborative Tool!
Ideaboardz! Just Another Great Collaboration Tool!
Today's Meet!
TodaysMeet is the premier backchannel chat platform for classroom teachers and learners. Designed for teachers, TodaysMeet takes great care to respect the needs and privacy of students while giving educators the tools for success.
Students join fast, easy to start rooms with no registration, and can immediately start powerful conversations that augment the traditional classroom.
Let's Talk Creation!
Some Tools to Assess!
What is TodaysMeet?
A Wonderful Tool That Empower learners!
TodaysMeet gives everyone the floor and lets even the quietest students express themselves. A tool to collaborate or assess.
Beyond the App....What is Inquiry?
Instead of just presenting the facts, use questions, problems, and scenarios to help students learn through their own agency and investigation. - Link to Article
Mini-Lesson: Inquiries Use Essential Questions to Guide Their Research.
Teach Students How to Question
Explore and Model Different Types of Deeper-Level Questions
An important aspect of inquiry-based learning is teaching students how to ask deeper questions. When the teachers at Ralston had students begin creating their own inquiries, the questions were the type that could be answered with a Google search. Because they weren't coming up with deeper-level questions, the teachers had to pause and reflect on how they were modeling questioning to their students. They asked themselves, "What's an appropriate question? What kinds of questions work?"
According to Principal Dawn Odean, the following two tips helped Ralston teachers:
- Across grade levels, reflect on how you model questioning from kindergarten and up.
- Pose big questions that don't necessarily have a single answer -- or any answer.
"We’re really looking at students being creative problem solvers," explains Odean. "For example, if students are reading a common text together, or posing questions about how they’re relating to the text, or how they think it might impact the world, there may not be one answer for that. As we start to pose those questions, we’re hoping that students start to pose those questions for themselves in a way that they can create an inquiry. Teachers are guiding with higher-level questions to really get students thinking and learning how to question themselves."
Active Engagement....Henry's Freedom Box
Chart - Questions, thoughts, and wonders....Now how do we turn those into our essential questions?